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Sure, I get that. I live in Georgia and there is all kinds of tension here about using Russian- though not only Russians use it. My wife is Georgian Armenian and went to the Russian school, so most Armenians here have Russian as a first language, not Georgian. Due to he occupation and now Ukraine war, there is friction with Russian speakers. Native languages should be encouraged, of course, and decolonization projects underway. But such things take time and not be forced, with a focus of changing the next generation. Demanding people use particularly languages and pronunciation/spelling can feed into pro-Kremlin propaganda. I’m not trying to be argumentative just adding nuance. Slava Ukraini!

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Yaakov C Lui-Hyden
Yaakov C Lui-Hyden

Written by Yaakov C Lui-Hyden

Yaakov is a world traveller and is accused of being an Australian. Published several novels. He writes about travel, writing, geopolitics and trading.

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